“When the gods intend to make a man pay for his crimes, they generally allow him to enjoy moments of success and a long period of impunity, so that he may feel his reverse of fortune, when it eventually comes, all the more keenly.”
― The Conquest of Gaul
― The Conquest of Gaul
“People don't want a bookkeeper for an Emperor; they want a master, someone who'll protect them from change.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“How do trite things get to be trite? why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”
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“recall, a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when - somehow even worse - there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of Turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.”
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